Ideas of P Grice / P Strawson, by Text

[British, fl. 1955, Pair of distinguished Oxford philosophers in the 1950s and 1960s.]

If we give up synonymy, we have to give up significance, meaning and sense

Full Idea:
If we are to give up the notion of sentence-synonymy as senseless, we must give up the notion of sentence-significance (of a sentence having meaning) as senseless too. But then perhaps we might as well give up the notion of sense.

A reaction:
This is very prescient. Nearly all American philosophers seem to embrace Quine's view of analyticity (the philosophical equivalent of Americans putting a man on the moon?), but have they digested the implications (which Quine later largely admits)?